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The servant (page or squire) of Herakles (Heracles) when he sailed with the Argonauts.
Herakles had killed Hylas’ father and took the youth with him rather than leave him amongst, what Herakles considered to be, the immoral Dryopians.
When the Argonauts landed on the island of Khios (Chios), Hylas went ashore for fresh water at the spring of Pegae (the spring that the flying horse Pegasos (Pegasus) had created by striking her hoof on the earth); the nymphs of the spring were attracted to Hylas because of his beauty and would not allow him to leave; Herakles stayed to search for Hylas but when he could not find him, went to the nearby city of Mysia and ordered the inhabitants to establish an annual sacrifice to Hylas at the spring.
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